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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Languages such as Java support package structures or namespaces. Enterprise Architect lets you specify a package as a namespace root, which </span><span class="f_Tabletext">denotes where the namespace structure starts; </span><span class="f_BodyText">all subordinate </span><span class="f_Tabletext">packages below this point are generated as namespaces to code.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To define a package as a namespace root, right-click on the package in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Project Browser</span><span class="f_BodyText"> and select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Code Engineering | Set as Namespace Root</span><span class="f_BodyText"> menu option. The package icon in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Project Browser</span><span class="f_BodyText"> changes to include a colored corner (</span><img src="namespacerooticon.png" width="20" height="19" border="0" alt="NamespaceRootIcon"><span class="f_BodyText">).</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">When you have set the namespace root, the menu option changes to </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Clear Namespace Root</span><span class="f_BodyText">; click on this option to take the namespace root status off the package. (Also, see the context menu described below.)</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Once you have set a namespace root, Java code generated beneath this root automatically adds a package declaration at the head of the generated file indicating the current package location.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To view a list of namespaces, select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Settings | Namespaces</span><span class="f_BodyText"> menu option. The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Namespaces</span><span class="f_BodyText"> dialog displays.</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="namespacesdialog.png" width="439" height="195" border="0" alt="NamespacesDialog"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">If you double-click on a namespace in the list, the package is highlighted in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Project Browser</span><span class="f_BodyText">. Alternatively, right-click on the namespace to display a context menu, and select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Locate Package in Browser</span><span class="f_BodyText"> menu option.</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="managenamespaces.png" width="432" height="135" border="0" alt="ManageNamespaces"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can also clear the selected namespace, by selecting the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Clear Namespace Attribute</span><span class="f_BodyText"> option.</span></p>




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